Epidemic Cholera in the New World: Translating Field Epidemiology into New Prevention Strategies

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 1995 Oct 1

PMID 8903186

Citations 22

Authors

R V Tauxe

E D Mintz

R E Quick

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